Inspiring!

If I recall correctly from a documentary, we don’t only share DNA that came from our common ape ancestors, but we all also have a small and variable amount of Neanderthal DNA in us, suggesting interactions other than strictly killing.

Agreed that complaining without proper argumentation makes no sense!

Shocking indeed... 12-year-olds!

I learned that as a product designer, you are moving across different types of design. This was not as apparent in agency work. I feel like we often got hired for execution, and not for research or problem definition. When we got hired, we already knew what the problem was. This is not always the case now, and thus I’ve been improving my research skills.

It looks like these can rotate, but can they also be taken down, like a canvas sail? Would there be any extra danger with having these wind-catchers in stormy weather?

Also: "Cofunded by the European Union" - interesting mid-sea advertisement.

I've lived in Finland for 3 years now, 2 in Sweden.

For example, in Helsinki, the capital, you will rarely see fancy or expensive cars on the streets. Even the CEOs and financial sharks here tend to drive boring Volvos and Volkswagens rather than anything that would make them stick out.

I wouldn't call it "rarely" (the parking of my startup/investor campus is half-filled with Teslas), but when comparing downtown Helsinki with downtown Stockholm, the difference is stark indeed.

'The pessimist will never be disappointed'

This is noticeable, and it also translates into a dark form of humor!

To all past, current and future Readup contributors: some changes are happening to our donation fund. I'll be in touch about how it develops!

The Yuzu Patreon currently brings in about $30,000 a month, making a $2.4 million settlement a significant expense for Tropic Haze LLC, the US company set up to coordinate those Patreon donations for the emulator's development.

"significant expense" is an understatement! With that revenue, it would take 80 years to reach $2.4M. And they stopped collecting donations.

I wonder: are the developers personally liable for this amount, or are they protected by the LLC? Will the LLC go bankrupt under such a debt? Do they have liability insurance that covers this?

But I don’t know that these steps are enough to prevent Nintendo from throwing around its weight again, particularly when it comes to emulating the Nintendo Switch, its primary moneymaker.

And I can also understand this. Emulating an active platform has always been a dubious idea, even immoral. Emulators provide a simple channel for pirated ROMs to be run, whether they want to or not. And in this case, such piracy is obviously damaging to the existing legal market.

Putting aside legality, the moral argument for emulating old and inactive platforms is much stronger. The source article has an aside that covers the actual "collateral damage": Pizza Boy, DraStic are also making changes, as well as supporting libraries. It's sad that this scene is getting affected too. I hope it doesn't last.

Nintendo is said to have hired from the scene for its own in-house emulation team, and Sony definitely did, hiring at least one developer of the PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 to bring PS2 games to PS4.

Wow, I had no idea. This means publishers can benefit from "appropriating" & selling emulation, but in doing so, they make the sold games less abandoned, and more questionable to emulate 🤔

"If Google does the upstream iOS work and shares it via Chromium/Blink open source, this opens up more options," according to Eich. "If Apple forbids using this alternative engine outside of Europe, however, the cost of supporting two engines may be prohibitive."

It's unfortunate that Apple's measures being EU-only disincentivizes companies to leverage their new freedoms. It would help if some influential US state(s) pass legislation similar to the EU DMA, like how the California CCPA came after the EU GDPR.

Interview from 2005 with a mysterious programmer couple from Montreal that built a giant collaborative database of metal music. Probably the largest in the world. They have kept it (four-handedly?) online until today, seemingly as a side project, and ruled it as benevolent dictators for 22 years. Incredible.

It’s fair to assume that anyone who has ever seriously looked into metal bands has visited this website, and that’s a lot of people.

Gripping read! This succeeds in covering the people behind the ultimate red button. I definitely wish this reality didn't have to be real.

I agree with this, mostly!

I haven't actively used Windows after Windows 7. I moved to Linux & afterwards macOS without regret, so I missed all the developments around WSL. But, today I spend hours in VSCode each day, GitHub has all my code, and I started the Copilot trial last week to check how helpful it really is. Corporations everywhere use Office & Teams, on all platforms. MS is everywhere today, not just on Windows!

we should expect more indignant press releases, more threats, more evasion, more malicious compliance.

Apple still builds solid hardware and software, even though breakthrough innovation on mainline products halted. I wrote something recently partly on how I both like & dislike what they do. Despite many gripes, I felt that they had become less closed in the last years: non-iCloud file synchronization apps can integrate nicely with iOS's file manager. There is an Alpine Linux emulator in the App Store. Since last year push notifications were possible for web apps.

But the indignant & petulant reaction to the DMA showed that more things need to change fundamentally for Apple to truly sail a more open course.

Pessimistic, but informative & historical look behind the scenes. It explains the swing Russia has made to modernization and now reversed through Putin, still within my millennial lifetime. The pessimistic part is really the assumption that this long-term unsustainable situation can be sustainable for years to come.

his primary tactic for preserving power is maintaining a sufficient level of socioeconomic well-being—in particular, by buying the loyalty of the lower-middle classes with social support. If economic failures can be overcome through political repression and an archaic national-imperial ideology, it is possible to rule for a long time.

Inspiring, but also strangely off-putting. It's like running has been his only real purpose in life for the last two decades.

Kipchoge’s wife and three children live a half hour away, but when in training, he’ll only see them from Saturday afternoon until Monday morning. The rest of the time he’s in camp, running 200-220 kilometres a week

He’ll set off minutes behind the field and all those who avoid being caught by Kipchoge will earn an entry to the mass-participation race at the Paris Games

Lol!

Great read, thanks Deep!

Good, measured take on today’s GenAI boom. I’d have to read some of the linked articles to really understand what he means with “meaning” though.

I only really gained sponsors when I regularly mentioned that my sponsors account existed. Otherwise, I lost more to attrition than I gained. This sat weirdly with me, as it felt like begging.

“If you build something valuable, charge money for it”

I find the topic of (F)OSS projects & monetization so fascinating. There's a lot of hate about open core models, but it probably the most realistic way to make a project sustainable and keep the people involved happy. All the best of luck to Ellie & Atuin.sh!

An ID check during the night time, that’s a pretty bad experience! I’ve taken two similar-looking night trains in Finland now, 10-15 hrs to go to Lapland. I’m also not good at falling asleep in trains. For some people, I know it feels like being “rocked asleep”. Not for me!

Cool project!

Scary. I guess soldiers know they’re up for risks, but “bugs” in the aircraft design are risks that you’d expect to be eliminated through careful consideration & thorough testing. I hope they find the root cause soon.

The issue couldn't actually be solved in code. It turns out that, in devising and coding all of the logic needed to test the various noun endings, I had passively learned the rules needed to form them.

We work in a practical medium and any build experience, good, bad or abandoned, is still valid experience.

Great reflective post!

I haven’t been spending a ton of time interacting on any of them; it’s common for almost a full day to go between posts.

My situation, sometimes: I haven’t been spending a ton of time interacting on any of them; it’s common for almost three months to go between posts. Considering "almost a full day" as "a ton of time" is perhaps indeed a sign of addiction! 😄

I’m not interested in having him be tracked or modeled. I know that this is likely an inevitability, but if it happens, it will happen despite me. I will not be the person who willingly uploads him as training data.

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I think you can try to be on the Internet while avoiding Influencers, and/or the places where they put up camp. I still happily don't use TikTok, and stay away from Instagram/LinkedIn/Facebook as much as possible.

There are small social spaces, like this one. Internet doesn't have to mean "following Influencers".

Lol. Great arguments to not comment without thinking!

I use Wachete to monitor hundreds of pages for changes: mostly pages on Berlin.de and relevant passages of German law. If something change, I get an email highlighting the differences.

Interesting, didn't know about such services.

I often find myself in a position where helping someone costs me very little, and has a huge impact. But the costs add up, and it plays a big role in how fast the treadmill is going.

Great! 15/27 is barely over half, I would have thought it to be higher.

Ahh, this brings me back. I really enjoyed the first season, but somehow stopped a few episodes into the second. I can’t recall why.